# SBA Emergency EIDL Grants to Sole Proprietors and Independent Contractors
> **Inspection / Evaluation** by Small Business Administration OIG · 2021-10-07
> *About: Small Business Administration*
## Report
- **Title:** SBA Emergency EIDL Grants to Sole Proprietors and Independent Contractors
- **Submitting OIG:** Small Business Administration OIG
- **Component agency:** Small Business Administration
- **Type:** Inspection / Evaluation
- **Publication date:** 2021-10-07

## Summary

The Office of Inspector General examined Emergency EIDL grants to sole proprietors and independent contractors from March 29, 2020, until the funds were exhausted just 14 weeks later on July 10.


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Open): We recommend the Administrator direct the Associate Administrator for Disaster Assistance to• review the applications of sole proprietors and independent contractors that included numbers of employees but no Employer Identification Number; and• remedy…
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/sba-emergency-eidl-grants-sole-proprietors-and-independent-contractors)
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